Matthew Sheffield
Articles by Matthew Sheffield
Donald Trump polling best among liberal and moderate Republicans
Even before he officially began his run for the presidency, real estate developer Donald Trump has provoked a lot of comparisons to Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who first ran for president in 1992. Published August 6, 2015
SHEFFIELD: Google gets hammered by monsters it created
You don't have to believe in karma to find the irony in the fact that the Web giant Google is finding itself in the cross hairs of the same pressure groups that it funded back when it was pushing heavily for "network neutrality." Published June 30, 2011
New-age censors ‘flag’ Web posts
One of the hottest Internet videos during the mortgage and banking crisis has been a YouTube clip titled "Burning Down the House," which outlines the untold story of how liberal Democrats pressured banks and lenders to throw standards out the window and give money to people who couldn't pay it back. Published October 2, 2008
SHEFFIELD: Hacking of Palin’s e-mail reveals how easy it is
As FBI agents close in on the computer hacker (said to be David Kernell, son of Democratic Tennessee state Rep. Mike Kernell) who broke into the private e-mail account of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, one startling aspect of the case has emerged - just how easy it was to compromise. Published September 25, 2008
SHEFFIELD: Candidates use Web for cheap, edgy ads
In the American federalist system, states have become policy proving grounds, places where ideas can be tested and elevated to the national level if proven effective - "laboratories of democracy," as Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis once put it. Published September 5, 2008
SHEFFIELD: Conservatives miss Wikipedia’s threat
Wikipedia, the community-edited encyclopedia that anyone can revise, is one of the Web's biggest success stories. What you may not know is that it also has become an important player in the political world. Published August 21, 2008
SHEFFIELD: Profanity greater on liberal blogs
Are liberals more profane than conservatives? Online, the answer seems to be yes. Profanity, those taboo words banned from the broadcast airwaves, is a feature of many people's daily lives. It's much less so in the establishment media world. TV and radio broadcasts are legally prohibited from using it, most newspapers (including this one) have traditionally refrained from its usage. Published August 7, 2008
SHEFFIELD: Online, conservatives miss bigger point
Besides coming to grips with the lukewarm presidential candidacy of Sen. John McCain, there are few questions roiling the online Right more than what the future holds. Published July 24, 2008
